Author: Lawrence C. Connolly
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Creating Frankenstein:
Now Available at Scripts for StageTemperatures drop. Snow falls. Time to hole up inside, light a fire, and catch up on the latest books and movies. Or … if you’re a 21st-century scop … it might be a good time to take the Lord Byron stormy-night challenge and get to work on that novel or script you’ve been thinking about.…
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This Week on Mystery Theatre:
The “Three-Things” Writing PromptLately I’ve become a fan of crazy unrelated ideas being woven into the fabric of a story. So writes best-selling mystery writer Jordan Dane in a blog about what has been called the three-things writing prompt. It’s a great way for jumpstarting the muse, and—as it ties in with this week’s episode of “In the…
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This Week on Mystery Theatre:
Ghosts & StoriesIn response to last week’s post “The Most Haunted Place in Pittsburgh,” Facebook friend Michael Brendan informs us that his father actually had an encounter with a Playhouse ghost. “It was John,” Michael writes, referring to the ghost of deceased thespian John Johns. “Dad saw him once in the seats after a show had ended.…
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This Week on Mystery Theatre:
The Most Haunted Place in PittsburghFor two weeks running, audiences who attended Prime Stage Theatre’s production of Frankenstein witnessed a haunting at the New Hazlett Theatre. Of course, it was part of the performance, with actor Suzanne Ward appearing as the white-clad spirit of Victor Frankenstein’s mother. <<< The ghost of Caroline Frankenstein haunts her son’s laboratory in Prime Stage’s…
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Frankenstein Reviews: It’s alive!
“A great adaptation of the classic novel.” So says Sean Collier on Pittsburgh Today, and it’s just one of the many strong notices that Prime Stage Theatre’s Frankenstein has garnered since its opening on November 5. You can catch the entire Pittsburgh Today review by clicking the player at the bottom of this post. <<<…
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This Week on Mystery Theatre:
Listener suggestions and responsesGhost light. It’s the light in a theatre that never goes out. Some say it’s to keep ghosts away. Others claim it’s to light the stage for dead performers. Still others insist it merely provides illumination for stagehands. Whatever the case, tonight you enter a darkened theatre to find a figure standing in its glow.…